William Daley and David Broder demonstrate a frustrating lack of specificity when the advocate that the Obama administration tack to the center to avoid crippling electoral losses in the midterm elections. Daley says this:
All that is required for the Democratic Party to recover its political footing is to acknowledge that the agenda of the party’s most liberal supporters has not won the support of a majority of Americans — and, based on that recognition, to steer a more moderate course on the key issues of the day, from health care to the economy to the environment to Afghanistan.
But what should Obama do about health care, the economy, the environment, and Afghanistan that is more moderate than what he has already proposed. Neither Daley nor Broder have a single word to say on that topic.
They should both be embarrassed. What an amazing lack of courage they demonstrate by refusing to articulate anything, any alternatives. You can’t rebut an argument that has no content or substance.
